Transcribed from the 1919 John Lane edition by Jane Duff and David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org THE TOYS OF PEACE AND OTHER PAPERS * * * * * TO THE 22ND ROYAL FUSILIERS * * * * * Note Thanks are due to the Editors of the _Morning Post_, the _Westminster Gazette_, and the _Bystander_ for their amiability in allowing tales that appeared in these journals to be reproduced in the present volume. R. R. Contents PAGE A Memoir of H. H. Munro ix The Toys of Peace 3 Louise 13 Tea 21 The Disappearance of Crispina Umberleigh 29 The Wolves of Cernogratz 39 Louis 49 The Guests 59 The Penance 67 The Phantom Luncheon 79 A Bread and Butter Miss 87 Bertie’s Christmas Eve 97 Forewarned 107 The Interlopers 119 Quail Seed 129 Canossa 141 The Threat 149 Excepting Mrs. Pentherby 157 Mark 167 The Hedgehog 175 The Mappined Life 185 Fate 193 The Bull 201 Morlvera 209 Shock Tactics 217 The Seven Cream Jugs 227 The Occasional Garden 237 The Sheep 245 The Oversight 255 Hyacinth 265 The Image of the Lost Soul 277 The Purple of the Balkan Kings 281 The Cupboard of the Yesterdays 287 For the Duration of the War 295 HECTOR HUGH MUNRO